Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Newcomers to the death metal scene Disinterred have just released an uncompromising slab of pure old school death metal with their "DEMO MMMXII" delivering a brutally festering piece of raw and apologetically heavy death metal. The band have been good enough to answer some questions for the riff, so here goes:

TPOTR - The band only
formed last year and have already released your debut demo

which offers up three
brutally classic death metal tracks. What were you all

doing before the band
started?

Well we started
calling us Disinterred last year but before that we’ve been playing together
for a while. First, around 2008/2009, it was just me (Steven – Drums) and Milly
(Guitar) jamming because we didn’t have an active band at that moment and just
wanted keep on playing music. Kurt (Bass) joined us shortly after. While at
first we just played a few cover songs from bands like Entombed, Obituary,
Grave, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death,... we quickly started to write our own
songs. We felt the need to have a second guitarist so we added Dwight to the
line-up. We had a few songs of our own now and quit playing the cover songs. We
only just needed a singer. At first we had Dennie who wanted to give it a shot
but our kind of Death Metal wasn’t really his thing and he just joined the
Belgian Black Metal band Saille which started to take more of his time. Then we
asked Dimitri (who’s also in Fungus Inc. with Kurt) to try out singing for us.
And the result is the demo. He’s an awesome singer.

Before Disinterred
all of us played in several bands of all kinds who recorded albums and did
tours.

TPOTR - When did you
decide this is what you wanted to do?

The exact moment when
I personally decided that this is the kind of music I wanted to make was the
first time I heard the ‘Stinking Up The Night’ album by Death Breath. I’ve
always been a huge Swedish Death Metal fan and this album is so pure and raw.
It’s catchy without being too technical (no triggered drums, no 7-string
guitars,...). That was something I wanted to make as well. Go back to the
basics of Death Metal, make good music that we all like ourselves and the best
of it all is that I can do it with a bunch of good friends.

TPOTR - I have to ask you
about the Monty Python samples used on the demo which

were taken from the
movie "The Holy Grail", who's idea was it to use these?

I love that movie and
I always liked that scene because it doesn’t make sense at all (just like any
other Monty Python scene) and it’s about ‘Death’. I thought it’d be fun to use
it as an intro or a sample in a song... and we did!

TPOTR - There seems to be
an almost dark ages vibe on the album with the artwork and also with the audio
samples which refer to the black plague with the call of "bring out your
dead" Is this a running theme on the demo?

It seems like it’s a
running theme, but it wasn’t meant to be. But on the other hand, we’re a Death
Metal band... So we kinda automatically have to sing about death and all the
things causing it. Our guitarist Milly is very much into history and he loves
to look up stuff on how people used to be executed in the dark ages. The
band name Disinterred actually comes from some Pope who passed away but got
disinterred from his grave to be present on his trial. He was found guilty and
they cut off some fingers and buried him again in another grave. They later
dug him up again to throw him in a river... (Milly told me to add this link
with all the info on that case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod)

TPOTR - The demo also has
some more doomy moments like Autopsy or maybe even Incantation which come
across so heavy like the intro to " Once Bitten" what bands do you
listen to outside of the band?

We all love Death
Metal but on the side most of us like a lot of other kinds of music. Going from
stoner to soul to hip hop to 80’s hardcore to...

The doomy moments
obviously make the music a little bit more catchy. It adds some melody and is
perfect to headbang on. Every doomy part in a song played by any band is
basically based on based on the song Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath!

TPOTR - Are their any
plans for a full-length in the works?

Well we are currently
working on new songs and we’re not sure yet how we’ll release them. We have
several ideas on how we’ll release them but before we decide anything we have
to see how many songs we’ll have.

Next month (end of
June/beginning of July) we’ll also release a split 7” with the UK Black Metal
band The Infernal Sea. We played our first show with them and we’re really
happy to be sharing a 7” with them! You should check them out as well!

TPOTR - What is the metal
scene like in Belgium?

It’s cool! We have a
lot of cool underground shows and a lot of touring bands play in Belgium.
During the summer we have a few cool mid-size festivals with both local as
international bands and then there’s the huge festivals with some metal bands
on the bill as well. We’re not complaining at all!

TPOTR - Do you have any
plans to tour throughout Europe in support of the demo or will you await your
assault and focus on a full-length and finding maybe a home for the band?

We only played two
shows so far and it’s been great. We love to play live and we’re looking
forward to playing more shows. But I think it’s too soon to start touring with
only a demo-tape. Also most of us have jobs and a family so that’ll make it
pretty hard to go on long tours. We’re hoping to do small weekend tours (3 to 4
shows) in the future and play everywhere where they want to hear us.

TPOTR - What is the
writing process like did you jam the songs in rehearsal or are they the work of
individual members?

It depends...
Sometimes we can start jamming and a song comes out of it. And it’s cool when
that happens, because in one rehearsal you can end up with a completely new
song. And sometimes one of us (mostly Kurt) comes up with a total song. But
it’s not like there’s one songwriter. The final result is always an effort of
all of us fine tuning the songs until it’s a song we can all be happy with.

TPOTR - Finally why did
you decide to give the demo away for free to fans?

Nowadays the
music-industry is fucked up. Bands aren’t making money on selling their music.
Most bands make money by touring and selling merchandise. For the moment there
are so many new bands in all kind of genres that it’s getting hard for people
to discover new bands. So we knew that as a new band you’ll have to stand out
to get heard. And nobody is going to pay for something if they’re not sure
they’re gonna like it. So we made our demo available to download for free. And
if they really like and they want to support us, they can always buy a
demo-tape or a shirt. We know that we won’t make any money making music. We
just don’t want to loose money on it either.

TPOTR – Do you think
this is the way to go with a lot of bands even giving fans the option of how
much they want to pay?

That’s something
every band should choose for itself. And it also depends on how ‘big’ your band
is. Big bands can get away with asking a lot of money for a record or a show
because people will always stay true to them. For small bands it’s different.
We’re an underground band. We don’t have endorsements or sponsors who pay for
our gear or a van if we want to tour. We can’t afford to ask a lot of money to
play shows because we’re only starting out. But if you play a show and people
come up to you and they want to buy a shirt and a demo because they like your
music then we’re earning more than just the money...